Maine Road in one sentence

My dad throwing me over turnstiles in kippax and walking up them steps seeing the pitch the feeling i carnt describe. Im from bolton and only city fan in school year used get loads of abuse but well worth it coz i knew saturday i was going maine rd unbelievable. That kinkladze goal still best goal ive ever seen live. The uwe rosler song used love singing that. The demonstrations swales out fucking loved it and still do blue army.
 
Getting the saturday pink from outside the souvenier shop. Being able to breathe again when the opened the gates of the swelteringly packed kippax and let us into the empty away end allotted for Charlton on that amazing last day back in 85.
 
The sheer excitement as a child of seeing the TV truck that meant we were on Match of the Day
 
Pudding & chips from the shop on Claremont Road, the old white wall, the tall floodlights you could see from the top of the bus.
 
Lost my Old Man in 71 when I was 12, but the five or six years we had going to the football together are still the best times of my childhood. Whenever there's a thread on here about Maine Road the memories come back. We (like most people those days) didn't have much in the way of disposable income, so a Wagon Wheel really was a 'treat for me'. Walking down Yew Tree Road seeing the crowds and the anticipation building, queuing for ages at the kids turnstile with half a crown clutched in hand, the back gates of the terraced houses open storing people's bikes for a couple of pennies and the two enormous police horses in the tunnel between the Platt Lane and the Main Stand that scared the shit out of me. Happy days!
 
Sitting on the white wall at the front of the kippax as a kid watching the game.
 
Getting there as soon as the gates opened so we could pay into the scoreboard end, jump over the wall and run into the kippax, so saving sixpence on the transfer gate, happy days!
 
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